14. Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
15. He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
16. On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud shofar; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
17. Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
18. All of Mount Sinai smoked, because the Lord descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
19. When the sound of the shofar grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
20. The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
22. Let the priests also, who come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break out on them.”
23. Moses said to the Lord, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’”
24. The Lord said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them.”
25. So Moses went down to the people, and told them.